RESEARCH INTERESTS: 

Social policies and welfare transformations; local welfare and social planning; (managerialization of) social services; co-production of policies and services; street-level bureaucracy theory; social workers’ agency; professionalism and new professionalism; street-level policy entrepreneurship; ethics of care, bodywork, and gender; public policies and participatory processes; deliberative democracy; territorial governance; public administration; administrative and reform narratives (New Public Management, New Public Governance, Collaborative Governance, Neo-Weberian State, Co-creation; Digital-Era Governance, New Welfare Narratives, LTC reform in Italy); digitalization and transformations of public bureaucracy; depoliticization and conflict reduction strategies; policies for aging and inequalities; interpretive and narrative approach, micro, meso, and macro.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

CATALDI L. (2024), New Public Governance as a Hybrid. A Critical interpretation. Cambridge Elements, “Public and NonProfit Administration” series, editors: Prof. Andrew Whitford e Prof. Robert Christensen, Cambridge University Press, Online ISBN: 9781009418904, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009418904 [book]

CATALDI L., TOMATIS F. (2024), Gender and Professionalism: Still A Black Box. A Call for Research, Debate and Action. Suggestions from and Beyond the Pandemic Crisis, “Organization”, vol. 31, n. 1, Sage, pp. 181-198, ISSN: 1350-5084, ISNNe: 1461-7323, DOI: https://doi.org./10.1177/13505084221115835 [article]

CATALDI L., TOMATIS F., COSTA G. (2022), Even more in the pandemic and social emergency: for an individual welfare beyond the family and the community, “Community, Work & Family”, vol. 25, n. 2, Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 194-198, ISSN: 1366-8803, ISSNe:1469-3615, DOI: https://doi.org./10.1080/13668803.2021.1911936 [article]

CATALDI L., CAPPELLATO V. (2020), New Welfare Narratives in Italy: Risks and Supposed Virtues, "The Tocqueville Review/ La Revue Tocqueville, vol. 41, n. 1, The Tocqueville Society, University of Toronto Press, pp. 207-250, ISSN: 0730-479X, ISSNe: 1918-6650, DOI: https://doi.org./10.3138/ttr.41.1.207 [article]